Poor People’s Movements

Science, Class and Society On the Formation of Sociology and Historical Materialism

Author(s): Göran Therborn

 


The present study is an attempt to grasp certain fundamental aspects of the social sciences - sociology, historical materialism and more briefly, for comparative purposes, economics - both as activities in society and as specific discourses on society. It is concerned with the social and theoretical formation of social science. An analysis of this kind has its own formation : it is part of a situation in the social disciplines that is characterized mainly by crisis, by reappraisals and reorientations, by contradictions and conflicts. In such situations, where old footholds no longer seem firm, classical assumptions are brought into question and submitted to new investigations and interpretations. Such undertakings are always adventurous and hazardous; in the opinion of some, no doubt, impetuous and even pretentious. Nevertheless, they are made and for some at least, they are necessary.

 

Ova studija je pokušaj da se shvate neke fundamentalne stvari aspekte društvenih nauka – sociologiju, istorijski materijalizam i, ukratko, za komparativne svrhe, ekonomiju – i kao aktivnosti u društvu i kao specifične diskurse o društvu. Ona se bavi društvenim i teorijskim formiranjem društvenih nauka. Ovakva analiza ima svoje formiranje: ona je deo situacije u društvenim disciplinama koju karakteriše uglavnom kriza, preispitivanje i preorijentacija, kontradikcije i sukobi. U takvim situacijama, gde stara uporišta više ne izgledaju čvrsto, klasične pretpostavke se dovode u pitanje i podvrgavaju novim istraživanjima i tumačenjima. Takvi poduhvati su uvek avanturistički i opasni; po mišljenju nekih, bez sumnje, nagli, pa čak i pretenciozni. Ipak, oni su napravljeni i barem su nekima neophodni.

 

Key words: authors/Göran Therborn, language/English, personalities/Durkheim, Marx, Max Weber, science, class, class struggle, society, sociology, historical materialism, Capitalism, managers, workers, administration, ideological community, economy, politics, bourgeois revolution, proletariat, Intellectuals, idealism, subject, civil society, production, superstructure

 

ključne reči: autori/ Göran Therborn, jezik / engleski, ličnosti/ Durkheim, Marx, Max Weber, nauka, klasa, klasna borba, društvo, sociologija, istorijski materijalizam, kapitalizam, menadžeri, radnici, administracija, ideološka zajednica, ekonomija, politika, buržoaska revolucija, proletarijat, intelektualci, idealizam, subjekt, civilno društvo, proizvodnja, nadgradnja

 

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